bby_1029137 - PHOCAS Semissis
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Type : Semissis
Date: 607-609
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,21 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FOCAS - PERP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Phocas de droite (A’a); diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Focas Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Phocas perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGY/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Victoire debout de face, marchant à droite, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Seul type de ce genre frappé sous le règne de Phocas.
Historical background
PHOCAS
(23/11/602-5/10/610)
Phocas succeeded Maurice Tiberius who had just been assassinated while trying to flee from Constantinople and take refuge with his friend Chosroes II, king of the Sassanids. To avenge his friend, the Sassanid resumed hostilities against the Byzantines and invaded Syria and Asia Minor. He seized Caesarea of Cappadocia and Chalcedony. Meanwhile, the Avars spread across the Balkans, sowing death in their path. The Empire seemed on the verge of breaking up when a revolt broke out in Carthage, led by Heraclius and his father, Exarch of Carthage. They drove out Phocas who was executed in 610.
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